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“This blog is like a fusion of the Baroque ‘salon’ with its well-tuned harpsichord around which polite society gathered for entertainment and edification and, on the other hand, a Wild West “saloon” with its out-of-tune piano and swinging doors, where everyone has a gun and something to say. Nevertheless, we try to point our discussions back to what it is to be Catholic in this increasingly difficult age, to love God, and how to get to heaven.” – Fr. Z
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- ThePapalCount on WDTPRS – 9 November: Feast of the Dedication of St. John Lateran, Rome’s Cathedral: “Fr Z — this is an excellent piece. Great teaching. Thanks for this.”
- on “Sometimes the scalpel is the honey.” Wherein Fr. Z rants about “the parable of the wheat and tares”.: “Another thought: sometimes the only one who can successfully use the scalpel on us is ourself. Because ultimately, it is…”
- on “Sometimes the scalpel is the honey.” Wherein Fr. Z rants about “the parable of the wheat and tares”.: “Fr. Z, I appreciate the honesty about yourself. It is a good prayer. May God reward you!”
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- on “Sometimes the scalpel is the honey.” Wherein Fr. Z rants about “the parable of the wheat and tares”.: “I’m finally reading the Divine Comedy. I’m through the Inferno and halfway in the Purgatorio. I often wonder if someone…”
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Category Archives: SESSIUNCULA
ASK FATHER: TLM vestments for military installation
Today seems an especially good day to post this request, from a priest: I write with a request that some of your readers may be able to assist with. I am starting preparation to offer the EF at our military … Read More
YOUR URGENT PRAYER REQUESTS
Please use the sharing buttons! Thanks! Registered or not, will you in your charity please take a moment look at the requests and to pray for the people about whom you read? Continued from THESE. I get many requests by … Read More
GUEST POST: Response to claim that Communion on tongue will spread influenza (and whatever else)
Appended below is letter by longtime Fr. Z’s Blog reader and participant to the pastor of the reader’s parish. It seems that in Sunday’s parish bulletin the pastor alleged that priests touch communicants’ tongues when people insist on receiving on … Read More
FOLLOW UP: D. Madison – All Souls Pontifical Reqiuem
Last night His Excellency Most Reverend Robert C. Morlino, Bishop of Madison, celebrated a Pontifical Requiem at the Throne for All Souls with the intention of the deceased priests and bishops of the Diocese. And from the choir … Read More
Get out the vote! And WATCH what’s going on at the polls!
Help your friends* get to the polls today. Get out the vote. *You know which friends I mean. UPDATE: And watch what is going on in the polling place. We had paper ballots. Look what happened to this guy in … Read More
MUST SEE VIDEO: Man with cancer rebuilds abandoned Minnesota chapel!
ORIGINAL: Published on: Oct 26, 2014 @ 16:36 WOW. Just… WOW. From 2012. I am not sure how to get hold of any of these good people, I’d be happy to come to celebrate Holy Mass in that chapel – … Read More
Thanks to readers, and Mass for benefactors
Now that I am back on the ground and better connected, here’s a quick note of thanks to everyone who sent me birthday greetings and who made donations and sent items during the month of October. I will say Masses … Read More
Pope Francis, Pope
I have been, frankly, both exhausted and a bit disgusted after the last Synod and I have been trying to have a little RnR. That doesn’t make for a lot of posting of edgy stuff. So, here’s a little meat … Read More
Helen Hull Hitchcock – RIP
In your charity, please remember to pray for the soul of Helen Hull Hitchcock, who died recently.
ThePapalCount on WDTPRS – 9 November: Feast of the Dedication of St. John Lateran, Rome’s Cathedral: “Fr Z — this is an excellent piece. Great teaching. Thanks for this.”
